英语词汇“pile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pile1

/pʌɪl

noun

1A heap of things laid or lying one on top of another: he placed the books in a neat pile tottering piles of dirty dishes...

Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall.
The amount of garbage the city generates is staggering - piles and piles of rubbish are heaped on the sidewalks by the end of the day.
One afternoon when I came on shift, I found it lying in a heap behind a pile of boxes.

Synonyms

heap, stack, mound, pyramid, mass, quantity, bundle, clump, bunch, jumble;

collection, accumulation;

assemblage, store, stockpile, aggregation;

hoard, load, tower, rick;

North American cold deck;

Scottish, Irish, & Northern English rickle;

Scottish bing

1.1 informal A large amount of something: he’s making piles of money...

Experts are at hand to advise you on how to put aside a little every month and invest it prudently, so that the little pile slowly grows into an appreciable amount within a few years.
Audiences around the world still get to their feet every night and the money pile continues to grow.
Are these questions to ask ourselves as the years pass, as the hostility grows, as the piles of dead mount on both sides?

Synonyms

great deal, lot, great/large amount, large quantity, abundance, superabundance, cornucopia, plethora, wealth, profusion, mountain;

quantities, reams, plenty

informal load, heap, mass, ocean, stack, ton

British informal shedload

North American informal slew

Australian/New Zealand informal swag

vulgar slang shitload

North American vulgar slang assload

1.2 archaic A funeral pyre.The following morning Priam bade his people go gather wood for the burial, and after nine days the body of Hector was laid on the pile and burned....

Then the corpse is brought and laid in the midst; the pile is kindled and the roaring flame rises, mingled with weeping, till all is consumed.

2A large imposing building or group of buildings: a Victorian Gothic pile...

Walter Scott, in one of his rare moments of happy economy, summed up the city skyline as mixed and massive piles - half church of God, half castle against the Scot.
The house itself is a pile built when Pitlochry was the chicest spa venue in early Victorian Britain.
The McKittrick Hotel is a gothic pile, quite similar in appearance to the Bates home.

Synonyms

mansion, stately home, hall, manor, big house, manor house, country house, castle, palace;

edifice, impressive building/structure, residence, abode, seat;

French château, manoir;

Italian palazzo

3A series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current.

4 (also atomic pile) dated A nuclear reactor.In the basement of the unused football stadium of the University of Chicago, scientists Enrico Fermi and Arthur Compton built an atomic pile and in December 1942 produced the first chain reaction in uranium....

Another display that caught my attention was the diorama showing Enrique Fermi and George While controlling the reaction at the world's first atomic pile CP - 1.
Bent on defeating Nazi Germany, Wigner worked on plutonium production and made superb engineering designs for the air-cooled atomic pile built by the DuPont Corporation.

verb

1 [with object and adverbial] Place (things) one on top of the other: she piled all the groceries on the counter...

He became notorious for piling his plate high and refilling it frequently, even wrapping a few pieces of chicken in a hanky and stuffing them in his pocket to eat later.
My mother was piling her plate high with a greasy, fatty, fry-up of a mixed grill and tucking in with gusto.
The checkout girls are friendly as she piles her groceries onto the conveyor belt.

Synonyms

heap (up), stack (up), make a heap/pile/stack of;

accumulate, assemble, put together

1.1 (be piled with) Be stacked or loaded with: his in tray was piled high with papers...

She wore a cloak about her shoulders that was piled with what looked like swan feathers.
Tables were piled with textbooks for homeschoolers, tomes denouncing evolution, booklets waxing nostalgic for the antebellum South.
The food bank shelves were piled with enough items to last eight weeks, said Jennifer Hayward, the food bank's treasurer.

Synonyms

load, heap, fill (up), lade, pack, stack, charge, stuff, cram;

smother, stock

1.2 (pile up/pile something up) Increase or cause to increase in quantity: [no object]: the work is piling up...

He is piling them up because the stacks serve as a kind of yardstick, measuring a new social phenomenon that is gaining ground in Germany.
I pile them up in great heaps on my working desk and, honestly, I really do know where things are in all that mess.
A lot of people just take horse poo out of the stables from the bedding and pile it up as manure heaps.

Synonyms

increase, grow, rise, mount, escalate, soar, spiral, leap up, shoot up, rocket, climb, accumulate, accrue, build up, multiply, intensify, swell

literary wax

amass, accumulate, collect, gather (in), pull in, assemble, stockpile, heap up, store up, garner, lay by/in, put by;

bank, deposit, husband, save (up), squirrel away, salt away

informal stash away

1.3 (pile something on) informal Intensify or exaggerate something for effect: you can pile on the guilt but my heart has turned to stone...

Miklós Rózsa's score, with its creepy Theramin-style theme, is way too insistent, piling the dramatic effects on so thickly that it becomes distracting.
Strange effects are piled on, and the song builds to a powerful climax of heavily distorted guitars and bleeping synthesizers.
Over the years as bandwidth got cheaper, extra features were piled on until it no longer mattered how small a file was, it only mattered that it could be viewed correctly.

2 [no object] (pile into/out of) (Of a group of people) get into or out of (a vehicle) in a disorganized manner: ten of us piled into the minibus...

We all piled out of the vehicles and set up a defensive perimeter with our weapons pointing out.
We finally arrived at a section of waterfront and piled out of the vehicles to look at birds.
It was ten by the time we piled out of Torry's vehicle and headed into the summerhouse.

Synonyms

crowd, climb, charge, tumble, stream, flock, flood, pack, squeeze, push, shove, jostle, elbow, crush, jam

2.1 (pile into) (Of a vehicle) crash into: 60 cars piled into each other on the M62...

The big final was a typically full-blooded affair, with a complete restart being called as the cars piled into each other before the green flag fell.
The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
Her twin sister Carly, who was in the front passenger seat, suffered a perforated eardrum and cuts from the smashed windscreen after the car piled into undergrowth.

Phrases

make a (or one's) pile

pile arms

pile it on

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila 'pillar, pier'.

Three different Latin words lie behind three different types of pile. Pile meaning ‘heap’ comes via Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’. The association with money in make one's pile is from the phrase ‘pile of wealth’ (Shakespeare Henry VIII: What piles of wealth hath he accumulated To his own portion?). Pile meaning a ‘heavy post’ driven into the ground to support a superstructure was pīl ‘dart, arrow’, and ‘pointed stake’ in Old English. It was adopted early into Germanic languages from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’. The pile of a carpet was first recorded in the sense ‘downy feather’. It comes from Latin pilus ‘hair’, found also in depilatory (early 17th century). The current sense of pile dates from the mid 16th century.

Rhymes

pile2

/pʌɪl

noun

1A heavy stake or post driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a superstructure.His solution has been to sink 1,800 wooden foundation piles deep into the ground....

Bisson said the elevator is supported by 179 piles, each averaging about 100 feet in length.
Local residents drove wood and stone piles deep into the river bottom to set a solid base.

Synonyms

post, rod, pillar, column, support, foundation, piling;

plinth, pedestal, foot, footing, base, substructure, underpinning, bed, subfloor, abutment, pier, cutwater, buttress, stanchion, prop, stay, upright

rare underprop

2 Heraldry A triangular charge or ordinary formed by two lines meeting at an acute angle, usually pointing down from the top of the shield.

verb [with object]

Strengthen or support (a structure) with piles: an earlier bridge may have been piled

Origin

Old English pīl 'dart, arrow', also 'pointed stake', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum '(heavy) javelin'.

pile3

/pʌɪl

noun [mass noun]

The soft projecting surface of a carpet or a fabric such as velvet or flannel, consisting of many small threads: the thick pile of the new rugs [as modifier, in combination]: deep-pile carpets...

Velveteen is an all cotton pile fabric with short pile resembling velvet.
The apartment was covered in wall-to-wall thick tan pile carpeting.
Cut pile carpet has yarn that is cut at the surface rather than looped back to the carpet.

Synonyms

fibres, threads, loops;

nap, velvet, shag, plush;

fur, hair;

soft surface, surface

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'downy feather'): from Latin pilus 'hair'. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century.

单词	pile
释义	pile1 /pʌɪl / noun 1A heap of things laid or lying one on top of another: he placed the books in a neat pile tottering piles of dirty dishes... Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall. The amount of garbage the city generates is staggering - piles and piles of rubbish are heaped on the sidewalks by the end of the day. One afternoon when I came on shift, I found it lying in a heap behind a pile of boxes. Synonyms heap, stack, mound, pyramid, mass, quantity, bundle, clump, bunch, jumble; collection, accumulation; assemblage, store, stockpile, aggregation; hoard, load, tower, rick; North American cold deck; Scottish, Irish, & Northern English rickle; Scottish bing 1.1 informal A large amount of something: he’s making piles of money... Experts are at hand to advise you on how to put aside a little every month and invest it prudently, so that the little pile slowly grows into an appreciable amount within a few years. Audiences around the world still get to their feet every night and the money pile continues to grow. Are these questions to ask ourselves as the years pass, as the hostility grows, as the piles of dead mount on both sides? Synonyms great deal, lot, great/large amount, large quantity, abundance, superabundance, cornucopia, plethora, wealth, profusion, mountain; quantities, reams, plenty informal load, heap, mass, ocean, stack, ton British informal shedload North American informal slew Australian/New Zealand informal swag vulgar slang shitload North American vulgar slang assload 1.2 archaic A funeral pyre.The following morning Priam bade his people go gather wood for the burial, and after nine days the body of Hector was laid on the pile and burned.... Then the corpse is brought and laid in the midst; the pile is kindled and the roaring flame rises, mingled with weeping, till all is consumed. 2A large imposing building or group of buildings: a Victorian Gothic pile... Walter Scott, in one of his rare moments of happy economy, summed up the city skyline as mixed and massive piles - half church of God, half castle against the Scot. The house itself is a pile built when Pitlochry was the chicest spa venue in early Victorian Britain. The McKittrick Hotel is a gothic pile, quite similar in appearance to the Bates home. Synonyms mansion, stately home, hall, manor, big house, manor house, country house, castle, palace; edifice, impressive building/structure, residence, abode, seat; French château, manoir; Italian palazzo 3A series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current. 4 (also atomic pile) dated A nuclear reactor.In the basement of the unused football stadium of the University of Chicago, scientists Enrico Fermi and Arthur Compton built an atomic pile and in December 1942 produced the first chain reaction in uranium.... Another display that caught my attention was the diorama showing Enrique Fermi and George While controlling the reaction at the world's first atomic pile CP - 1. Bent on defeating Nazi Germany, Wigner worked on plutonium production and made superb engineering designs for the air-cooled atomic pile built by the DuPont Corporation. verb 1 [with object and adverbial] Place (things) one on top of the other: she piled all the groceries on the counter... He became notorious for piling his plate high and refilling it frequently, even wrapping a few pieces of chicken in a hanky and stuffing them in his pocket to eat later. My mother was piling her plate high with a greasy, fatty, fry-up of a mixed grill and tucking in with gusto. The checkout girls are friendly as she piles her groceries onto the conveyor belt. Synonyms heap (up), stack (up), make a heap/pile/stack of; accumulate, assemble, put together 1.1 (be piled with) Be stacked or loaded with: his in tray was piled high with papers... She wore a cloak about her shoulders that was piled with what looked like swan feathers. Tables were piled with textbooks for homeschoolers, tomes denouncing evolution, booklets waxing nostalgic for the antebellum South. The food bank shelves were piled with enough items to last eight weeks, said Jennifer Hayward, the food bank's treasurer. Synonyms load, heap, fill (up), lade, pack, stack, charge, stuff, cram; smother, stock 1.2 (pile up/pile something up) Increase or cause to increase in quantity: [no object]: the work is piling up... He is piling them up because the stacks serve as a kind of yardstick, measuring a new social phenomenon that is gaining ground in Germany. I pile them up in great heaps on my working desk and, honestly, I really do know where things are in all that mess. A lot of people just take horse poo out of the stables from the bedding and pile it up as manure heaps. Synonyms increase, grow, rise, mount, escalate, soar, spiral, leap up, shoot up, rocket, climb, accumulate, accrue, build up, multiply, intensify, swell literary wax amass, accumulate, collect, gather (in), pull in, assemble, stockpile, heap up, store up, garner, lay by/in, put by; bank, deposit, husband, save (up), squirrel away, salt away informal stash away 1.3 (pile something on) informal Intensify or exaggerate something for effect: you can pile on the guilt but my heart has turned to stone... Miklós Rózsa's score, with its creepy Theramin-style theme, is way too insistent, piling the dramatic effects on so thickly that it becomes distracting. Strange effects are piled on, and the song builds to a powerful climax of heavily distorted guitars and bleeping synthesizers. Over the years as bandwidth got cheaper, extra features were piled on until it no longer mattered how small a file was, it only mattered that it could be viewed correctly. 2 [no object] (pile into/out of) (Of a group of people) get into or out of (a vehicle) in a disorganized manner: ten of us piled into the minibus... We all piled out of the vehicles and set up a defensive perimeter with our weapons pointing out. We finally arrived at a section of waterfront and piled out of the vehicles to look at birds. It was ten by the time we piled out of Torry's vehicle and headed into the summerhouse. Synonyms crowd, climb, charge, tumble, stream, flock, flood, pack, squeeze, push, shove, jostle, elbow, crush, jam 2.1 (pile into) (Of a vehicle) crash into: 60 cars piled into each other on the M62... The big final was a typically full-blooded affair, with a complete restart being called as the cars piled into each other before the green flag fell. The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality. Her twin sister Carly, who was in the front passenger seat, suffered a perforated eardrum and cuts from the smashed windscreen after the car piled into undergrowth. Phrases make a (or one's) pile pile arms pile it on Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila 'pillar, pier'. Three different Latin words lie behind three different types of pile. Pile meaning ‘heap’ comes via Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’. The association with money in make one's pile is from the phrase ‘pile of wealth’ (Shakespeare Henry VIII: What piles of wealth hath he accumulated To his own portion?). Pile meaning a ‘heavy post’ driven into the ground to support a superstructure was pīl ‘dart, arrow’, and ‘pointed stake’ in Old English. It was adopted early into Germanic languages from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’. The pile of a carpet was first recorded in the sense ‘downy feather’. It comes from Latin pilus ‘hair’, found also in depilatory (early 17th century). The current sense of pile dates from the mid 16th century. Rhymes aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file, guile, I'll, interfile, isle, Kabyle, kyle, lisle, Lyle, Mikhail, mile, Nile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile, worthwhile pile2 /pʌɪl / noun 1A heavy stake or post driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a superstructure.His solution has been to sink 1,800 wooden foundation piles deep into the ground.... Bisson said the elevator is supported by 179 piles, each averaging about 100 feet in length. Local residents drove wood and stone piles deep into the river bottom to set a solid base. Synonyms post, rod, pillar, column, support, foundation, piling; plinth, pedestal, foot, footing, base, substructure, underpinning, bed, subfloor, abutment, pier, cutwater, buttress, stanchion, prop, stay, upright rare underprop 2 Heraldry A triangular charge or ordinary formed by two lines meeting at an acute angle, usually pointing down from the top of the shield. verb [with object] Strengthen or support (a structure) with piles: an earlier bridge may have been piled Origin Old English pīl 'dart, arrow', also 'pointed stake', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum '(heavy) javelin'. pile3 /pʌɪl / noun [mass noun] The soft projecting surface of a carpet or a fabric such as velvet or flannel, consisting of many small threads: the thick pile of the new rugs [as modifier, in combination]: deep-pile carpets... Velveteen is an all cotton pile fabric with short pile resembling velvet. The apartment was covered in wall-to-wall thick tan pile carpeting. Cut pile carpet has yarn that is cut at the surface rather than looped back to the carpet. Synonyms fibres, threads, loops; nap, velvet, shag, plush; fur, hair; soft surface, surface Origin Middle English (in the sense 'downy feather'): from Latin pilus 'hair'. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century.
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